One point is that the ".recycled" directory is related to the filesystem (SFS). On others filesystems you cannot recover deleted files in that way (ie FAT32, ext2, ...) and for example if you use PFS3 the name of this hidden directory is ".deldir".

Managing deleted file from the filesystem is a nice feature. And from this point of view, there no reason it should be visible as real directory: it is not a real directory.


[ Edited by Jeckel on 2010/1/12 9:58 ]